Writing African history /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, N.Y. :
University of Rochester Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ;
v. 20. |
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Table of Contents:
- What is African history? / John Edward Philips
- Archaeology and the reconstruction of the African past / Susan Keech McIntosh
- Writing African history from linguistic evidence / Christopher Ehret
- Physical anthropology and African history / S.Y.O. Keita
- The importance of botanical data to historical research on Africa / Dorothea Bedigian
- Oral tradition as a means of reconstructing the past / David Henige
- Oral sources and the challenge of African history / Barbara M. Cooper
- Arabic sources for African history / John Hunwick
- European documents and African history / John Thornton
- Mission and colonial documents / Toyin Falola
- Data collection and interpretation in the social history of Africa / Isaac Olawale Albert
- African economic history : approaches to research / Masao Yoshida
- Signs of time, shapes of thought : the contributions of art history and visual culture to historical methods in Africa / Henry John Drewal
- Methodologies in Yorùbá oral historiography and aesthetics / Diedre Bádéjo
- Local history in post-independent Africa / Bala Achi
- Africa and world-systems analysis : a post-nationalist project? / William G. Martin
- "What Africa has given America" : African continuities in the North American diaspora / Joseph E. Holloway
- History and memory / Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu
- Writing about women : approaches to a gendered perspective in African history / Kathleen Sheldon
- Writing African history / John Edward Philips.